The Neosho Daily News from Neosho, Missouri • Page 1

I I today tonight Fridny. Warmer toddy, High low tonight 56 high VOLv 61, NO. 223 -J L. 1 NEOSHO DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1956 Price Five Cent! I I Appropriate Backdrop Jj II .1 Tom Johnson, left, Newton County Democratic chairman, paused last night to confer on tactics and strategy with Charles Brown of Springfield before the latter's campaign speech on the courthouse lawn. Mr, Representative Dewey Short.

rown is running against U. S. (Daily News Photo) HONG KONG bttwttn Communist and Chinttt trupttd into virtual open warfare in this British Crawn colony today. Moro than 100 persons wtrt reported killtd. consulate ing their setting it British A young Ozark political candidate took the night chill off a partisan crowd of Democrats last night by pulling out a stove fuIJ sell his produce, he gets less.

He charged that farm prices have failed tremendously during the poultry and milk prices as prime examples, "Strange things arc going on in Washington," Mr. Brown said, re- handling of the farm situation by Secretary of Ag- rirulture Ezra T. Benson. He ri charged I'jfppling around by Brother Benson and his young bureaucrats" is the cause of the farmer's ills. of hot vocal coals and tossing past fivc yoars and gavc ca them at ills Republican opponent, Representative Dcwcy Short.

Charles Brown of Springfield spoke to a crowd of about 300 on the west lawn of the Newton Coun- ii i erring to ty Oourthouse following six previous appearances Wednesday in the county, A covered dish supper in the Farmer's Room of the courthouse before the rally didn't seem to have a dozing effect on the listeners as they heard Mr, Brown loosen all the stops in his campaign to capture the House seat held by Rep, Short for 24 years. The young campaigner led off his speech by asserting that the Ozarkian economy was based primarily on farming, and said that "army camps may come and go, but what makes us great in the Oiarks is our farming. Farming is our number one 1 Mr. Brown's reference to army camps, and a later reference to defense plants in the area, were in acknowledgement of Rep. Short efforts in bringing about the location of Rockctdync and a permanent Army installation in the Neosho area, and other industries in the vicinity.

I "The farmer is disillusioned, discouraged and Mr. Brown told the crowd. He said the farmer buys articles that cost cost him more now than a few years ago, but when he goes to HONG KONG Hong Kong government rushed British army troops and tanks tonight into areas of the colony near the Red China border to halt two days of rioting that turned finally against Europeans. Mobs swarming through the streets of Kowloon on the mainland across from Hong Kong proper attacked all Europeans they could find. They tried to burn to death the chancellor of the Swiss and his wife by drench- car with gasoline and afire.

troops and Pakistani police from the British controlled hinterland behind Kowloon patrolled the streets while Royal Air Force jets flew overhead. It was the first time Britain had taken such a step for fear of offending the Chinese Reds whose frontier is only a few miles away. There was speculation in some Asian capitals that the riots might mark the start of a Chinese effort or a propaganda campaign to take over the British crown colony. But Britain was tnaking no assessment for the time being. The colonial government imposed a curfew on the refugee-crammed Kowloon sector and Lt.

Gen. William H. Stratton, commander- in-chief of British forces in Hong Foam Extinguisher For Oil Fires -1 Kong, took over personal of operations from Kowloon police station. Europeans attacked by the mobs were given refuge in the police station. They were still there under guard tonight while British troops patrolled the area with orders to shoot if necessary.

Tanks guarded important intersections. took with lack of a way down body, and i TheNo.l4-HClub Elects Officers The No. I 4-H club held its regular meeting at the school on October 1st. Janice Cook, president, presided at the meeting, during which the club elected their officers for the coming 4-H year. Those elected were: president, Karen Rinchart; vice-president, Sue Adams; secretary-treasurer, Janice Cook; song leader, Connie Rinchart; game leader, Marie Adams; Community Leader, Mrs.

Marcolin Rinchart; Senior Council Member, Avis Cook and Jr. Councl Member, Janice Cook. Project leaders for the coming year arc: Clothing II. Ill, IV, Mrs. Ester Lankford, and food preparation Mrs.

June Adams. Plans were made to fill out program book before next meeting. The- activities selected were Posture and Safety in addition to Health. Refreshments were served to the five members and six visitors attending. Mr.

Brown said it was terrible that farming has come to such a state thai the young farmer must leave the land and seek work in city plants, a move the young farmers don't want to make. "I want to go to Washington," the Springfieldian said, "so I caji work for the Ozark In a direct attack on Congressman Short, Mr. Brown said that the representative hadn't attended a farm problem session all year. hasn't offered an amendment to a farm bill in the past 10 Mr. Brown accused.

In reference to Mr. Short's alleged at farm hearings, Mr. Brown asked the audience: "The least he could do is go to the sessions and listen for us, isn't it? He wouldn't have had to say anything, just listen." Mr. Brown's other attack on Mr. Short had to do with the location of an $18 million federal animal disease laboratory that was given to St.

Joseph after Springfield and two other Ozark communities had vied for it. He charged the loss directly to Mr. Short. Prior to Mr. Brown's speech, a group of entertainers from the Ozark Jubilee in Springfield performed.

Tom Johnson, Newton County Democratic chairman, introduced several candidates before the spcechmakinfi: Kleber Dunaway, Mrs. Dona Tooley, Vincent Pearman, Dr. L. L. Tallcy, John Rice, Harry B.

Anderson, V. H. Hardy and James Williams. Disputes Over Rights Of Negroes Erupt In South By UNITED PRESS i ---i Disputes over rights of Negroes to vote, to sit with whites in football stands and on buses, and to equal opportunles in the armed forces erupted in the South today. The U.

S. Department of Justice asked Congress Wednesday to investigate whether Negroes are being illegally deprived of voting rights in Pierce County, and in Ouachita and Rapides Parshes, La. City officials askccl a of Tallahassee, state legislative committee to investigate a racial bus boycott and activities of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Sen. Herbert H.

Lehman (D-NY) i Searchers Find Body Of Missing Noel Resident The bbdy of a 68-year-old Noel man, Harry Barnby, who had been gone from his home since September 6, was found at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in a deep hollow IVfe miles from his home. The body was found by. Pete Harmon of Noel, one of about 25 or 30 searchers who were called out at 4:30 p.m. yesterday when it was determined Mr.

Barnby was missins. Conservation agents Dick Lassiter and Onal Edmonds drove a jeep to the edge of the hollow and removed the body. A clock that Mr. Barnby often him to the woods for watch was found half the hillside above the a .410 gauge shotgun was found with the body, indicating that Mr. Barnby liad gone hunting and had fallen down the hill, according to County Coroner M.

Humphrey, who investigated along with Pinevill Marshal Floyd Fine. Barnby had lived in Noel for many years, but recently was suffering from a heart condition and stuck close to home, rarely coming to town. A neighbor, John Porter, his mail to him, but had assumed Mr. Barnby had taken a trip. When the mail began to pile up, however, and Mr.

Barnby's pe.i- sion check had not been picked up and cashed, the neighbor became suspicious and yesterday called Mr. Barnby's daughter, Mrs. Robert Mueller of Joplin. She and her husband drove to Noel yesterday and notified Mr. Fine, who set off the search.

She identified the body by the clothes Mr. Barnby was wearing. Surviving, in addition to his daughter, Mrs. Mueller, arc his widow, Mrs. Margaret Barnby of Joplin; two other daughters, James Schultz of Hum bold and Mrs.

Tony Bell of Coffeyville. Would Interven At UN On Suez If It Woul At each monthly meeting, Neosho's volunteer fire department operates a different piece of equipment or goes through a certain practice in order to be ready at all times for any type of fire. At the meeting this week, the members put out an oil fire with a foam extinguisher Cotton Bales is shown operating the extinguisher, assisted by Fire Chief Bill Garner. From left, standing, are Elmer Houck, Raymond Hammer, Curt Wilson and Bob Smith. A solution in the can mixes with water from a hose connected to the fire truck to produce the foam.

The foam smothers oil or gas fires, whe re plain water would be ineffective. (Daily News Photo) 45 Jordanians Said Killed srael, Jordan Clash In Heavies! Fighting Since '48 UN Truce Pact NATHANYA, Israel UP Israel announced today Its army had inflicted "heavy losses' on Jordon's Arab legion in an ,8 to 1 mA rfrfe 12 hour batfle asked Defense Secretary Charles, two SQnS) John Barnb Wilson to invcstsatc a charge that Wilson to invcstgatc a charge Negro scrvcemcn at Donaldson Air Force Base and Fort Jackson, S.C., arc being denied educational courses. A segregationist deader accused the Navy of deliberately "slapping us in the in selling tickets 'to the Tulane football game without regard to race. Lousiana's new law banning racial mixing of spectators at athletic events does not go into effect until two days after the Tu- game Saturday. A Navy spokesman said, "We have always sold available tickets to anyone applied.

Winklcmen, and James Barnby of Joplin, and 22 grandchildren. Catholic graveside rites will be held at 4:30 p.m. today in Noel Cemetery. Burial will be under the direction of Humphrey and Son Funeral Home. mates" in Israel said 45 Jordani ans were killed.

The final toll was expected to be much higher. The dead was only for the fighting around the Sewer Survey ByStafePHS Scheduled Here Dog Rustlers Coralled WASHINGTON (UP) Police rounded up a gang of juvenile clog rustlers Wednesday. Officers said the youths herded some 25 purebred dogs into a wooden "corral" and them to pet shops. later New Trap Range Due To Be Finished By End Of Week; First Firing Sunday Iris City May Become City Of Flower Boxes Who Needs One Now? WINTERS, Calif. Orvillc Salisbury, 0(5, who says he has been driving automobiles ever since they were invented, has agreed to drive no more.

Salisbury made the promise recently when brought into court fov driving without a license. He tola the judge never had one. One-sixth of Maryland's total is water surface. following item was clipped from the Editorial Page of the El Paso, Timer, and sent to Mrs, John B. Williams of Route 5, Neosho; "Mrs, H.

Hutthings, 709 Brown recently returned from a trip during which she visited Neosho, known as the 'Flower Box "I join Mrs. Hutchings in wishing that every El Paso home would Imitate Neosho and put in flower boxes, "El Paso already has become the City of Iris. Tht Garden Clubs are doing a wonderful job in every But, to my of thinking, it would be a worthwhile taking to try to make El Paso also a city gf flower boxes." (Editor's Nfosho might toe able to get a El Pasoans on few tips from how to raise without water.) i Work is being completed this week on the new City Trap Range in preparation for the first firing Sunday afternoon from 2-5 p.m. The range provides a new sport for Ncosho's recreation program and one which will interest a new south of the hangar building at the women. The range is located in the area south of the hanger building at the (Municipal Airport on Highway 60, just west of the Municipal Golf Course and the intersection of Highways 60 and 71.

Abo Phillips, recreation director, said that with the range opening at this time of year many hunters will get a chance to sharpen up their eye before shooting at live game. A frame trap house with an automatic electric trap has been constructed by the high school woodworking classes under the direction of Ellis Latimer. The house has been moved to the range and is now being painted by Albert M. Smith, new city parks and recreation man. Materials for the house, about $75 worth, will be paid for by the County Sportsmen's League, which will assist the city recreation department in the operation of the range.

Clyde Williams has loaned the city the use of an automatic electric trap to throw the clay pigeons and plans call for the trap to be installed in the trap house today or tomorrow. Stands on which the sportsmen and women may lay their shells are also being built by the high school woodworkng classes and will be installed at each of the fivo positions. The schedule calls for the range to open for the first Sunday and to be open each Sunday afternoon (hereafter, at other times U' there is enough demand. A 75-cent fee will he charged for each round (box) of- shells fired to pay the cost of the clay pigeons and the salary of a boy to load the trap. Any surplus that might accumulated will go toward the estalishment of a skeet range, if demand warrants one.

It is planned to hav shells for sab at the range in the future, said. A survey of IXeosho's sewer system by a public health engineer is expected to shed considerable light on sewer needs in view of the city's expansion. City Manager Homer Ball said today that in a few months an engineer with the Bureau of Public Health Engineering of the State Division of Health at Jefferson City will be in Neosho to make a routine survey of the city's sewage system. Such a survey is made every fow years, but the one now scheduled com-es at a time when the city is wondering how much its sewers will hold in view of the new homes which are being planned, The city will receive a detailed report of the survey, once it is completed. his (the report) will provide us with the facts with which we can determine the inadequacies of our sewer system, if any," Mr.

Ball said. However, he said it would still be up to the city to work out its own answers to its sewer problems, although the report may contain recommendations Mr. Ball was informed of the pending sewer study by Jim Noel, an engineer with the Bureau of Public Health Engineering who works on water problems. Mr. Noel along with the two public health engineers for this district, this week completed the first part of an inspection of Neosho's water production and distribution facilities, Mr.

Noel said that he planned to return at a later date to complete th-9 inspection, and then would write a report about the city's water system. This, too, is pected to be of considerable value to city officials. Prior to the sewage study, an engineer from the Bureau of Public Health Engineering will come to Neosho for an inspection of the sewage disposal plant itself, from operational standpoint, to de- if proper sanitary methods are being followed. He will also help re-establish a laboratory at the sewage disposal plant. One was in operation there some time ago, and money for again establishing one was included fa the budget for fiscal 1956-57, Jordan border fortress of Kalkil ya.

Several other Jordanian bor caught up in the fighting that swirled along a 12 mile sector of the frontier. Israeli sources said "scores" of Jordanians were believed wounded in the battle, the heaviest fighting in seven years of Jewish-Arab border tension. The dead were said to be one-half Arab Legionnaires and the rest police and national guardsmen. The fighting was touched off by Israel's punitive attack across the Kalkilya fortress. United Nations observers raced to the Jordan side of the border today to investigate the Israeli attack second major retaliatory raid in recent weeks.

Israel said its own army suffered nine dead and 12 wounded in the fighting, heaviest in the Holy Land since end of the Palestine war in 1948. Jordan said Israel used bombing planes and heavy artillery in the massive attack. An Israeli army spokesman said the Arab Legion sent reinforcements of battalion 1,000 men to the scene of the Israel attack at Kalkilya but that Israeli troops cut off their approach and inflicted heavy casualties. The Israeli army moved out of Nathanya across the plain of Sharon where Joseph was once sold to the Ishmaelite traders for 10 pieces of silver and attacked the big Jordan fortress around 3 p.m. EDT.

BULLETINS LONDON UP A U. S. Air Transport Service plane with 59 homeward bound American servicemen aboard vanished early today over the Atlantic Ocean between England and the Azores. WASHINGTON UP President Eisenhower today announced a program of increased aid, including allocation of $5 million mo in relief funds, for farmers in drought-stricken areas. Dental Clinic Has Needed Equipment i Magazine To Use Neosho Baby Fix A 'bright and shining" little girl who is the daughter or granddaughter of a Neosho family will soon have her picture, in "My magazine, published in New York (Sty by Shaw Publications.

Murphy Studio sent nine baby pictures to the magazine and received this reply: would like to run one of the nine photographs in a forthcoming issue. The one we want to use is of a small girl, a profile shot, who looks very bright and shining, and who might be dressed for a 1 The children were: Betsy and Jim Lane, children of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Lano; Kathy Schmid, granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs.

T. F. Whitebead; Phyllis Anne Boyscn, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Woodard, Jeff Woods, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Woods Susan Henry, daughter of Mr. Mrs. George Henry, and Ralph Murphy, grandson of Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Murphy. Different poses of some of the children were included, Through the purchase of a practically complete outfit of dental equipment at a bargain price of $250, the Newton County Children's Dental Clinic, now has all the equipment it will need or the money to buy it. Dr. E. G.

Williams, retired dentist, sold the dental equipment that he had in his office at his home, 330 S. Hamilton to the clinic for S250, and plans call for the equipment to be installed in a room at the Newton County Health Unit which has been reserved for the clinic. The purchase included an x-ray machine, dental chair, wall bracket on which to lay tools, dental engine to drill or grind teeth electric lathe for polishing work, laboratory desk, laboratory cabinet, cabinet for the chair, a hopper for plaster of paris, sterilizer, a large quantity of forceps, and other equipment. Dr. F.

Duncan, dental advisor to the clinic board of directors, reported that the equipment was worth much more than price of $250. This was paid from $609.50 which has been collected so far in the dental clinic drive. 'Earlier, considerable equipment was donated by the Missouri Department of Health, and it will be coupled'with the purchase from Dr. Williams to clinic, along with other purchases. The only thing that now stands in the way of the opening of the clinic, which will privileged children, operating expenses directors reported.

WASHINGTON denied today that ho had ever considered announcing during the campaign plans to end the draft and H-bomb tests, The 'President also said he would go before the United Nations if he thought such a personal appearance would help solve the Suez Canal crisis. Mr. Eisenhower reiterated his long standing position that he would go anywhere in the world and do anything to get peace with justice. j. At his news conference, Mr.

Eisenhower was asked about reports that GOP campaign strategists originally planned announcing an end 1 to the draft and bomb tests but had been forced to ri drop them after Adlai E. Stevenson came out with statements on the two subjects. Mr. Eisenhower said the reporter was telling him -things about administration he had nevtr heard And he said he never had considered any such announcements. In answer to another question about Stevenson's campaign statements about ending H-bomb tests, Mr.

Eisenhower said he had said his last word on the draft and H-bomb test issues in the political campaign. In other highlights of his news conference, Mr. Eisenhower: 1. Said a new drouth program will be announced later today and a conference of all the responsible people in the drouth stricken areas will be called after the election. 2.

Said he believes the names of all passengers on government- operated ships should be made public. He said he can see no i reason on earth why such passenger lists should not be published the day the ship sails. This comment was in response to a question about reports that members of Congress by the score have been taking free Caribbean cruises on ships of the publicly- owned Panama Line. 3. -Said he believes that the managements of U.

S. domestic affairs is the main issue in the present political campaign. 4. Said he will have his promised general medical checkup sometime before the -end of this month. 5.

Again all eligible Americans to register to vote in the Nov. 6 election. 6. Indicated he hasn'c yet mads up his mind on continuing aid to Yugoslavia. He must decide by Oct.

16. political front, Mr. Ei- said he is not ready to the South as far as Reare concerned in the Nov. 6 election. He said that would ing there is a section try in which he has But he said he has no definite plans at present to campaign in the South where four states went Republican in 1952.

He said his heart had been warmed by the crowds and receptions he had received on his campaign trips. He said he was prevented from making more campaign trips by his job as President. 'I-1 On the senhower write off publicans be like say- of the coun- no interest. benefit uruler- is money for the board of Johnston To Head Minister Association Minan pas- Pb. S91-R or 178 New officers of the Neosho isterial Association were nounced today.

The Rev. Kenneth Johnston, tor of the Methodist Church, was elected president. Other officers are the Kev. Lloyd G-ebhart, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, vice president, and the Rev.

Merle Bandy, First Baptist Church, secretary-treasurer. The Ministerial Association today also announced that in observance of Reformation Day, Oct. 31, a film, "Martin 1 would be shown. The place and time will be announced later. Dying Father Sees Children Last Time LITTLE ROCK (UP)- Three young children who hadn't seen their father in seven years until Wednesday will say their last goodbyes to him today.

He has only a day or two to live. The father is Frank Boyett, 37, of Ward, Ark. His three children live with their mother in Ohio. Boyett has stomach cancer and is in Ft. Roots Veterans Hospital, Doctors says his is a terminal ease and it won't be more than a day or so.

Last week Boyett told doctors he could die happy if he could seo his two sons and a daughter once more. He got his wish. The three lived with Boyett's divorced wife in Lorain, Ohio, near Cleveland. The hospital's eial service department, along with the Red Cross and the Air National Guard, planned the NEOSHO WEATHER High Wednesday Low Wednesday Thursday 83 48 60 Man Bound Over On Weapons Charge Otto Faulkner, charged with firing a .22 caliber rifle into the home of Mrs, Ethel Cady on East Spring St. near Hickory Creek, this morning was bound over for trial in Circuit Court.

Faulkner was returned to tha County Jail in default of bond..